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Counterexample: zuccotti Park. It's privately owned, but the place for Occupy Wall Street. It used to be that life happened on the streets, i. e. public proper
by matt4077 10y ago
Counterexample: zuccotti Park. It's privately owned, but the place for Occupy Wall Street.
It used to be that life happened on the streets, i. e. public property. If you get a hundred people to walk down Main Street at noon, 2/3 of the city will see it.
Over the last 50 years, life has moved (a) indoors, (b) onto private commercial property (mall, airport...) and (C) online, while some properties that used to be public are now private (parks, even the mayor's office is now often a lease-back arrangement.
That's why the rules need to be updated. Otherwise we'll be left with a Free Speech Zone(tm)(sponsored by McDonalds) on some empty parking lot for each city.
- gwright 10y agoPublic spaces and public accommodations are an interesting topic, but I think that is somewhat different from the idea of government blocking publication or other dissemination of information.